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The NIMBY party wants to focus on building, huh?
Can you elaborate on what your comment is meant to mean? I'm not sure I understand. My apologies and thanks in advance.
No problem at all! The Greens in the UK often vote against building things, including eco-friendly deveopment. They argue that they're in favour in principle, but then find reasons to oppose specific developments over and over again. This is known as 'nimbyism', which comes from the phrase 'Not In My Back Yard' used when people say things like 'I am in favour of (e.g.) new homes but not in my back yard'.
My comment was intended to convey my scepticism that a party that keeps opposing building even green infrastructure is now going to build a lot of new housing, as they claim here. Even at the event, Polanski made comments about opposing new developments if they didn't meet certain nebulous standards, which is a classic nimby tactic!
It's fine. They just need to build the houses outside the environment so as to not inconvenience any blades of grass.
i suppose they're not called tories on bikes for nothing. these are local elections so noone really gives a shit but maybe a decent show in may will build some monentum for them. i hope so because i like their housing policy overall, including ending right to buy, reintroducing rent control, increasing new build % of council housing and bringing housing back into council management where possible
i work for a council housing dept so am biased but i do really believe that a strong social housing sector is the best way to to start reducing the cost housing & cost of living overall
I agree with you here! I just worry their track record suggests that they'd tend to block anything that didn't meet an impossibly high standard.